Editorial

The new year begins – as it rarely does – with good news: Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions are believed to have fallen by almost ten percent last year – a good step towards meeting the Paris climate targets. However, a second glance, which Malte Kreutzfeldt and Nico Beckert have risked, shows this: Around half of the decline is not due to successful climate policy, but to last year’s poor economic situation. And that clouds the picture again.